Time and Location

Talks are on Fridays at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. The colloquium will be held in Marie Mount Hall, Room 1304 unless noted otherwise. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Confirmed Speakers and Dates

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
October 8	Ted Gibson	MIT	Linguistic Complexity: Locality of Syntactic Dependencies
October 15	Lisa Zsiga	Georgetown	Phonetic Alignment Constraints
October 22	Howard Lasnik	Connecticut	Feature Movement or Agreement at a Distance?
November 5	Danny Fox	Harvard	Extraposition and Scope: A Case for Overt QR
November 19	Paul Pietroski	Maryland	Events and Functions
December 3	Ellen Broselow	SUNY	Loanwords and Learnability
December 10	Colin Phillips	Delaware	Grammatical Search in Parsing

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Masaaki Kamiya (kamiya@umiacs.umd.edu). The same goes for anyone who is interested in having dinner with the speaker and members of the department.

Directions

Of Related Interest

People who attend the Linguistics Colloquium Series are also encouraged to attend the LAISEM (Logic and Artificial Intelligence) series on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and the Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series on Thursdays at 4 p.m. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to linguists.

Series Organizer

This is a student-run series coordinated by Masaaki Kamiya (kamiya@umiacs.umd.edu).